Study History, Save Your Marriage Patheos , John Fea “Why Can’t I Own Canadians?” Rightly Dividing the Word of Truth White Horse Inn , Michael Horton A Strange Review: Moneyball Strange Herring , Anthony Sacramone Teenage girl dies in Japan ‘exorcism’ The Telegraph The . . . . Continue Reading »
A Congressional committee is planning an investigation of Planned Parenthood . The probe is partially in response to the special report by Americans United for Life which uncovered a range of abuses by the abortion provider: In a September 15 letter LifeNews.com obtained, Rep. Cliff Stearns, a . . . . Continue Reading »
I agree with Pete’s gushing about Christie’s speech. He’s operating on a higher and more subtle level than the other candidates. So I’m hoping he works out. (I was neither endorsing Romney nor dissing Reagan below. But there is a case for Romney, after all.) But OMG . . . . Continue Reading »
Chris Christie’s Reagan Library speech reads awesome . I especially like how he uses the rhetoric of American exceptionalism not for purposes of back patting, but as a call to truth, humility for what we have been given, humility about our unpleasant current circumstances, and . . . . Continue Reading »
This seems a huge story to me, but has been ignored by all but conservative media outlets. Apparently, an Iranian pastor may soon be executed for apostasy because he refuses to recant his Christian faith. Here’s the story from the Get Religion blog, by the eminently responsible . . . . Continue Reading »
I am no expert on how to succeed in marriage, but I do know failure. Nobody made me vow to love my wife Hope for richer or poorer, in sickness or in health, but I did so swear. When I have failed in love, and I have failed love, at least I had a standard to note my failure.Forgiveness, the medicine . . . . Continue Reading »
Three years ago, my friends Robert P. George and Christopher Tollefsen (both senior fellows at the Witherspoon Institute and familiar to FT readers) published a short and powerful book called Embryo: A Defense of Human Life —a wonderful combination of scientific and philosophical . . . . Continue Reading »
Sorry, folks, it’s the New York Times again that is the source of our amusement. Today they have a story in the news pages with the following lead: “A bake sale sponsored by a Republican student group at the University of California, Berkeley, has incited anger and renewed the . . . . Continue Reading »
While it is difficult to tell nowadays what is meant by the terms “liberal” or “conservative,” it is especially difficult to understand what is meant by the term “progressive.” Anthony Esolen weighs in: The term does not actually denominate anything. It is the . . . . Continue Reading »
In her latest On the Square column , Elizabeth Scalia discusses baseball and other things that’ll break your heart: Baseball fans understand each other’s afflictions. We could laugh in that moment, because our team was winning, but we recognized all too well the sound of anguish . . . . Continue Reading »
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